Snow Storm Mission is S*** Storm

[twkadventures]

I'm so over it right now that to say I'm pi**ed is an understatement. I've been having fun playing GTA IV UNTIL the SNOW STORM mission. It feels massively broken. Shouldn't there be a freaking CURVE to difficulty, instead of this absolutely ridiculous switchback?! I've been playing nearly ALL DAY and can't get past this mission. I have the stupid route from Elizabeta to the OLD HOSPITAL memorized (because stupid Roman will only give a stupid ride stupid ONCE) - which is ONE FRUSTRATION...okay, just ONE of MANY. So I make it all the way to the stupid hospital, take out everybody easy enough, find the coke (may I have a line, please - to get THROUGH this mission?!) - and then one of two things happens: I wait it out, moving from room to room, taking out a literal TON of cops, until there's only a few left - at which point I leave only to get slaughtered in some ridiculous way....OR...after cut scene getting coke, I RUN out of the building, get in the truck the dealers left, and take off....I can go anywhere, it doesn't matter...you can't ever lose the police, and they will follow you (I've fled for like 20 minutes at a time) until you get obliterated. It's just stupid. This game, although hella fun to this point, feels seriously broken. I CANT be the only person that feels this way, right? Am I just an idiot and don't know it yet? Is THIS the way I find out the special bus is coming for me?

[Silver]

Don't wait inside for the cops to come to you, you need to leave the place quickly. There aren't too many NOOSE agents inside, just be careful that a couple hide in between the two hallways, so look out for them as you make your way out of the hospital.

Also, taking the boat next to the exit has been a reliable way for me to lose the cops quickly. You might want to try this out:

 

[Corndawg93]

Theirs a boat you can take that help out a tonne

[ant_sh]

18 hours ago, twkadventures said:

taking out

You may get in and out through the back ladder. Don't take out bikers in the front, they'll be distracting the police later

[twkadventures]

20 hours ago, Legomanarthur said:

Don't wait inside for the cops to come to you, you need to leave the place quickly. There aren't too many NOOSE agents inside, just be careful that a couple hide in between the two hallways, so look out for them as you make your way out of the hospital.

Also, taking the boat next to the exit has been a reliable way for me to lose the cops quickly. You might want to try this out:

 

Thank you so much - this was SUPER helpful - I made it!  I did exactly this and just made a run for it and jumped into water/onto boat and hightailed it towards the bridge/town until auto-called Jacob. Thanks again! Also what helped is turning off auto-aim, ugh, my reticule would get stuck aiming at someone behind a doorway, then when they'd move in front of me I was just decimating the door jam while they weren't getting touched. You don't know how much I appreciate your help!

2 hours ago, ant_sh said:

You may get in and out through the back ladder. Don't take out bikers in the front, they'll be distracting the police later

Thanks, I appreciate your input - I didn't mess with the bikers out front like you said - and that helped. Also, I ENTERED the building through the ladder, which was awesome, because everyone on the 2nd floor has their backs to you and you can just take them out. However, after getting coke, I couldn't get back ON the ladder to escape. Nico just jumped but could never grab the beam directly in front of him. Either way though, I escaped and ganked the boat. Thanks again, truly appreciate it - I couldn't have escaped without your help!

19 hours ago, Corndawg93 said:

Theirs a boat you can take that help out a tonne

Absolutely! That's how I escaped finally, thanks so much!

[billiejoearmstrong8]

A fun thing to do once you're in the room with the drugs is make a quick call to Roman for a taxi before picking them up. If you go in via the ladder and mostly walk across the roof to get to the room, leaving most of the gang members alive, it's actually useful because when the cops storm the place half of them get caught up fighting the gang instead of going after you. So after grabbing the drugs you can just run past them all straight to the parking lot where Mohammed has pulled up in his taxi and jump in! He doesn't mind a wanted level. Set a waypoint in Chase Point near where you'll meet Jacob and skip the trip to it - this takes you out of the wanted circle immediately and it's very easy to lose the cops from there just by making sure they don't see you. Most amusing and easiest way.

[twkadventures]

1 hour ago, billiejoearmstrong8 said:

A fun thing to do once you're in the room with the drugs is make a quick call to Roman for a taxi before picking them up. If you go in via the ladder and mostly walk across the roof to get to the room, leaving most of the gang members alive, it's actually useful because when the cops storm the place half of them get caught up fighting the gang instead of going after you. So after grabbing the drugs you can just run past them all straight to the parking lot where Mohammed has pulled up in his taxi and jump in! He doesn't mind a wanted level. Set a waypoint in Chase Point near where you'll meet Jacob and skip the trip to it - this takes you out of the wanted circle immediately and it's very easy to lose the cops from there just by making sure they don't see you. Most amusing and easiest way.

That's just awesome. I'll replay the level/mission this way. One thing I noticed - I'm playing on Xbox X - and most of the time I have to 'kill' NPC's multiple times. Like, I'll take them out, they'll drop a weapon in orange and all, then they will slowly respawn by lethargically getting back up again. It's crazy. I have to waste a lot of ammo this way. Have you had this issue at all?

[JetNormalGuy]

41 minutes ago, twkadventures said:

That's just awesome. I'll replay the level/mission this way. One thing I noticed - I'm playing on Xbox X - and most of the time I have to 'kill' NPC's multiple times. Like, I'll take them out, they'll drop a weapon in orange and all, then they will slowly respawn by lethargically getting back up again. It's crazy. I have to waste a lot of ammo this way. Have you had this issue at all?

thats because in this game, NPCs don't die when their healthbar gets emptied, they get "knocked out" and will sometimes stand back up a try to limp away from you, only way to kill them is to either land a headshot on them or shoot them a couple more times when they're already knocked out (point blank shotgun shots also kills them but its too risky to pull off since you have to practically stick your gun to the enemy's face for it to work). 

 

You only need to 'kill'/knock out your enemies once during missions because once they go down the first time the game counts them as being eliminated, so there's no need to waste extra ammo on them when they stand back up because they won't even try to fight you back, they'll just run away or lay down in the ground in pain.

 

Also if you're having difficulties in future missions, use grenades, they're expensive but they're worth it for being able to clear tight spots and kill enemies without having to trade shots and risk getting hit.